Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace                              Yanks flush Jap wipers in ravaged Manila Tho stars and stripes fluttering Over Manila Ami it inc Arl mrs liberation on to dinging in their dough Lions hunted Down japs in lie smoke shrouded philippine Ca Pital after the cornered enemy Garrison wantonly dynamited and Sot the Torch to lie most modern of the reports indicate that Northern Manila and nearby City have been cleared of the enemy after three Days 1he lire still rain ing mortar Ami artillery shells into this area from the South Hank of dip Pensig japans worst Mili tary defend in its flames appeared to be dying town along Karol to thoroughfare of shops and office build where demolition squads tour Hwy off explosives Mon Day a Mil Square area was reported including some f the orients finest the a said Tinl Ninny filipinos undoubtedly were trapped in their Homes and burned to death while other thousands were said to he homeless when the flames spread of the residential Tokyo radio said that american gunfire and incendiary so by Fili Pino guerillas were responsible for to but Macarthur said they were wantonly by the trap lied and frustrated enemy Garri and had no relation to Jap military sky troopers in 35mile dash the liberation of Manila and More than prisoners from Bree years of Jap imprisonment was proclaimed tuesday by Mac the knockout Winch see yanks on Page 2 vet body agitates for Bonus Detroit probably the most Lush veterans benefits suggested heretofore have been asked by her National commander of the United nations legion of world War ii who has announced that his organization wants for veterans in letter to the president the War and Navy declared thai Federal legislation should be provided to compensate each Veteran with not less than for meritorious he also wants additional War benefits for those who Are shows the spirit Barney 57yearold Veteran of two world wars who has been overseas most of the time since Pearl says that he is dying to get Back to this eager Beaver Lias just re turned from 29 months in Eto As a photo technician with the 8th and 9th air Ive got nothing to says suss in i word of explain Why not Jive some Young fellow i Chance if i could go Over and replace some fellow who has wife and it make me very meet in Black sea area Washington presi prime minister Churchill and Marsha accompanied by their three foreign secretaries mid other Are now meeting in the Black sea according to the while the announcement said their purpose is to concert plans for defeat of the enemy and for building with their allies firm foundations for a lasting conference Boffin with military the present situation on All fronts has been reviewed and the fullest information is Complete agreement for joint mi1 Litany operations in the final phase of the War against nazi the military staffs of the three governments Are now engaged in working out jointly the detailed will cover plans for the occupation and control of the political and economic problems of liberated Europe and proposals for the earliest possible establishment of a Perma nent International organization to maintain Churchill aides killed in crash London own ten Passen including six members of the British foreign were killed when a plane carrying prime minister chinchillas aides crashed in route to Black sea it was announced by the British air crashed five other passengers were listed As missing and presumed killed and five others yank maintains quest for return meet with Las swinging Kraut with the 18th airborne corps before Siegfried for eight Donald Smith has been looking for certain Stone trooper to avenge a cat o nine Nils lashing he received a captive of the and when Smith runs across thai Rcpt Kiiji will never have the Chance to answer any Smith was cup Tunkl i Day pins nine and be eventually is but not before tinges an had thoroughly initiated him to ils Subtle meth id f i they to where they me i Little Shack eat said then they put a Beautiful in the room and left us she in dressed an stood Nee Irving tue in 1 kicked her and slap Ped her away from her brought is guards and one of them twisted my Arm until another stripped me to the while an is offi cer beat me across the Back with a cat n nine those scars still Weed the Gestapo finishing touch was when Smith and an american Captain were being taken to a is officer offered them when the Amer ican officer leaned Over id get a the German Shoi him cold blood edly through the forgot hot exclaimed never ill see his face i my bin the whip Sruv Smith wan scene of Wanton killing of captured yanks an american Soldier Gates at the of a group of officers and enlisted men discovered beneath the mow in a Field near Bel evidence reveals that these men were among 115 captured americans who were deliberately shot Down in cold blood by a nazi tank Al Belgium again cleared Allied commanders Confer As americans pushed across the belgian and Luxembourg Bor grinding against the outer Belt of Siegfried and an alsatian offensive is shrinking the Colmar sheaf announced that Eisenhower and Bradley along with other members of the Headquarters staff have held a 24hour conference on the Western according to frontline All Belgium is again cleared of the american troops have not Only won Back the ground lost to Rundstedt in his Surprise Chargi semis 01 awol figures Paris Milton Provost said that american soldiers Are and not As re ported in a statement last week credited to his reckon said the erroneous total probably had been computed on he basis of goo new awol cases without taking into account lilo daily return of said awol were re ported during december who were not returned or caught by the end of the plus Lon term awol missing for More than a 97 per cent survive Pacific nor Man army surgeon Gen has revealed that j7 per cent of men who Are wounded in Batik now survive due to quickly Admi nist ered medical he said that wounded soldiers gel preliminary treatment within ten if Mintos after briny in but they made penetrations into germans lines deeper than Ever news inroad into German lines was made on wednesday when four divisions of the american third army stormed across the our and sure Rivers along a 22 mile front North of echternach on the Reich Side of the Luxembourg in a temperature and in Fantry divisions crossed the Rivers in rubber assault boats at Points against an intense barrage of German Rifle and machine gun added to actions along other sectors of the Western this new drive against the Siegfried line gave the allies almost a continuous 120mile front on nazi soil Between Holland and the Indus trial City of two Roer dams held important gains were made Dur ing Tho week on the upper part of the belgian american first army bark under Bradley Are driving deeper into West Wall defense Mons Hsiu stiff see Belgium on Page 8 o Miracle save says Russ spokesman Whilo stiffened resistance on the Berlin front bus impeded the jaw Jestic Breakneck Pace with which Zhukov forces swept the rus sians Are butt Lingon Tho out skirts of Buestrin Anil Frankfurt and assembling vast masses of and infantry for pounce on Trio 180 South East of marshal Koines 1st ukrainian army Surgel across the Gecler this week and established i 50milo Bridgehead Tho West Bank of the advancing 15 Miles on this Sile Sia n Between Bolea Gercel Breslau and the russians bus broke the strategic water Barrier which had been roughly after capturing Brieg and other cities Koniaev intensified his blows from Bridgehead and wheeled Northwest in general of the River turn at he is also pushing Westward with double objective of reaching the River Neisse and out flanking Index Otvia the German High command Al Olally admitted that the russians have another Bridgehead Northwest of Breslan by capturing this is substantiated Ivy stains announcement that to Nieves forces Are preying toward the important rail Junction of life it appears that the armies of Zhukov and Koniaev Are successfully seeking to Roll no the entire Oder line with major objectives As Breslau and the moravian Industrial which is said to be a mass of flames As the Ger mans Burn the industries of West Ern silence from Moscow Moscow silence concerning the Berlin front May indicate that a big is under at any the germans made no pre tense that the front could be stabilized and radio Berlin told the people that the russian offensive could not be slopped at Moscow has not yet announced any Oder Bridgehead in the Buestrin Frankfurt sector although the germans asserted several Days see soviets on Page 2 Washington american Bat the casualties on All fronts have risen to a total of and Are nearin6 the toll of the civil reported acting of War a of the total army including those of most of december Are the Navy bus reported re the Hiles casualty is a  Short of the Nim her who died on both sides during the civil americas costliest